incase

incase provides a more pipe-friendly alternative to dplyr’s case_when() and if_else().

Installation

You can install the development version of incase from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("rossellhayes/incase")

Usage

Pipe-friendly conditionals

incase’s in_case() and if_case() accept a vector as their first input, allowing you to take full advantage of magrittr’s .

1:20 %>%
  in_case(
    . %% 15 == 0 ~ "fizz buzz",
    . %%  3 == 0 ~ "fizz",
    . %%  5 == 0 ~ "buzz",
    TRUE         ~ .
  )
#>  [1] "1"         "2"         "fizz"      "4"         "buzz"      "fizz"     
#>  [7] "7"         "8"         "fizz"      "buzz"      "11"        "fizz"     
#> [13] "13"        "14"        "fizz buzz" "16"        "17"        "fizz"     
#> [19] "19"        "buzz"

1:20 %>% if_case(. %% 3 == 0, "fizz", .)
#>  [1] "1"    "2"    "fizz" "4"    "5"    "fizz" "7"    "8"    "fizz" "10"  
#> [11] "11"   "fizz" "13"   "14"   "fizz" "16"   "17"   "fizz" "19"   "20"

Automatic type conversion

incase functions automatically coerce types. This is especially useful when dealing with integers or NAs.

x <- -1:5

# Replace -1 with NA
dplyr::case_when(x == -1 ~ NA, TRUE ~ x)
#> Error: must be a logical vector, not an integer vector.
dplyr::case_when(x == -1 ~ NA_integer_, TRUE ~ x)
#> [1] NA  0  1  2  3  4  5
in_case(x == -1 ~ NA, TRUE ~ x)
#> [1] NA  0  1  2  3  4  5

# Replace -1 with 0
dplyr::case_when(x == -1 ~ 0, TRUE ~ x)
#> Error: must be a double vector, not an integer vector.
dplyr::case_when(x == -1 ~ 0L, TRUE ~ x)
#> [1] 0 0 1 2 3 4 5
in_case(x == -1 ~ 0, TRUE ~ x)
#> [1] 0 0 1 2 3 4 5

With incase, you no longer have to worry about specifying the type of your NAs or adding L to your integers.

Easy default values

in_case() adds preserve and default arguments as a more intuitive alternative to TRUE ~ ....*

1:20 %>%
  in_case(
    . %% 15 == 0 ~ "fizz buzz",
    . %%  3 == 0 ~ "fizz",
    . %%  5 == 0 ~ "buzz"
  )
#>  [1] NA          NA          "fizz"      NA          "buzz"      "fizz"     
#>  [7] NA          NA          "fizz"      "buzz"      NA          "fizz"     
#> [13] NA          NA          "fizz buzz" NA          NA          "fizz"     
#> [19] NA          "buzz"

1:20 %>%
  in_case(
    . %% 15 == 0 ~ "fizz buzz",
    . %%  3 == 0 ~ "fizz",
    . %%  5 == 0 ~ "buzz",
    preserve     = TRUE
  )
#>  [1] "1"         "2"         "fizz"      "4"         "buzz"      "fizz"     
#>  [7] "7"         "8"         "fizz"      "buzz"      "11"        "fizz"     
#> [13] "13"        "14"        "fizz buzz" "16"        "17"        "fizz"     
#> [19] "19"        "buzz"

1:20 %>%
  in_case(
    . %% 15 == 0 ~ "fizz buzz",
    . %%  3 == 0 ~ "fizz",
    . %%  5 == 0 ~ "buzz",
    default      = "pass"
  )
#>  [1] "pass"      "pass"      "fizz"      "pass"      "buzz"      "fizz"     
#>  [7] "pass"      "pass"      "fizz"      "buzz"      "pass"      "fizz"     
#> [13] "pass"      "pass"      "fizz buzz" "pass"      "pass"      "fizz"     
#> [19] "pass"      "buzz"

Simplified interface for recoding

switch_case() works as a convenient shorthand for in_case() when recoding discrete values.

parties
#>  [1] "D" "R" "I" "L" "D" "D" "D" NA  "R" "D" "G" "I" NA  NA  "I" "I" "D" "I" "D"
#> [20] "D"

parties %>% 
  in_case(
    . == "D"           ~ "Democratic",
    . == "R"           ~ "Republican",
    . %in% c("G", "L") ~ "Other",
    . %in% c("I", NA)  ~ "Independent" 
  )
#>  [1] "Democratic"  "Republican"  "Independent" "Other"       "Democratic" 
#>  [6] "Democratic"  "Democratic"  "Independent" "Republican"  "Democratic" 
#> [11] "Other"       "Independent" "Independent" "Independent" "Independent"
#> [16] "Independent" "Democratic"  "Independent" "Democratic"  "Democratic"

parties %>%
  switch_case(
    "D"         ~ "Democrat",
    "R"         ~ "Republican",
    c("G", "L") ~ "Other",
    c("I", NA)  ~ "Independent"
  )
#>  [1] "Democrat"    "Republican"  "Independent" "Other"       "Democrat"   
#>  [6] "Democrat"    "Democrat"    "Independent" "Republican"  "Democrat"   
#> [11] "Other"       "Independent" "Independent" "Independent" "Independent"
#> [16] "Independent" "Democrat"    "Independent" "Democrat"    "Democrat"

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Please note that incase is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

* Intuitiveness may vary from person to person.